self-complacency

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ complacency.

Noun

self-complacency (uncountable)

1. The quality of being self-complacent.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 128:

     No self-complacency can equal that of the selfish. Not content with its indulgence, they actually idolise it into being praiseworthy.